alt Hacker NewsCan you please explain this? That sounds like identifying bugs but not fixing them but I realize you don’t mean that. One hopes the context information in the error will make it actionable when it occurs, never completely successfully, of course.
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Copenjin • yesterday at 9:39 PM
You can hope that the person reading the context will always able to understand it like you would have. Bad assumption in my experience.
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Here's an example of a bug that I filed about non-actionable error messages: https://github.com/karmab/kcli/issues/456
The first error message was "No usable public key found, which is required for the deployment" which doesn't tell me what I have to do to correct the problem. Nothing about even where it's looking for keys, what is supposed to create the key or how I am supposed to create the key.
There are other examples and discussion of what they should say in the link.
Edit: Here's another one that I filed: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20775